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    2024 Poetry Anthology - Seasons - Week Three

    By Valkyrie

    It's week three of our 2024 poetry anthology - Seasons, and we have six more poems and poem collections to enjoy!  Be sure to leave a comment or review for the poet.  A reminder that I will be on vacation from April 7-22nd with limited availability to be on site, so please direct any technical issues to @Myr @wildone or @Cia    
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MDBCs 26 Apr 2024

April 26th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Chernobyl disaster related observances: Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus) Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia) Christian feast day: Aldobrandesca (or Alda) Franca

MDBCs 25 Apr 2024

April 25th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand, Tonga) Christian feast day: Giovanni Battista Piamarta Major Rogation (Western Christianity) Mark the Evangelist Maughold Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur

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sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 998

MDBCs 24 Apr 2024

April 24th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia, France) Christian feast day: Benedict Menni Dermot of Armagh Dyfnan of Anglesey Ecgberht of Ripon Fidelis of Sigmaringen Gre

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sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 997

Three Tanka

Tanka:   It must be summer – The flies press against the frame, For just like stained glass, Their wings flutter to escape The very presence of light.       Tanka:   My thoughts are worn out By how temporal is our plane; The things that we have In the world are all soon tossed, One tear always bringing more.       Tanka:   All the crowds are gone,

AC Benus

AC Benus in verse

MDBCs 23 Apr 2024

April 23rd 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Adalbert of Prague Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus Saint George Blessed Giles of Assisi Gerard of Toul Ibar of Beggerin (Meath) Toyohiko Ka

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sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 996

MDBCs 22 Apr 2024

April 22nd 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church) Arwald Epipodius and Alexander Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church) John Muir (Episcopal Church) Opportuna of Montreuil

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sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 995

MDBCs 21 Apr 2024

April 21st 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abdecalas Anastasius Sinaita Anselm of Canterbury Beuno Conrad of Parzham Holy Infant of Good Health Shemon Bar Sabbae

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sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 994

MDBCs 20 Apr 2024

April 20th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Agnes of Montepulciano Beuno Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran) Theotimos April 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) 420 (cannabis culture) UN Chinese Language Day (United Nations)   Observances (click on the day, BD

MDBCs 19 Apr 2024

April 19th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Ælfheah of Canterbury (Anglican, Catholic) Conrad of Ascoli Emma of Lesum Expeditus George of Antioch Olaus and Laurentius Petri (Lutheran)

Toronto the Good, no longer

I'm writing this because I read Edward Keenan's column in the Toronto Star newspaper today. It made me sad, angry and frustrated, with our city, those of us who live here, and most especially with those we elect to care for us and our city.  Mr. Keenan wrote so well about how this city was once known as Toronto the Good, and it was at one time that people here cared about each other. Now, not so much, as Mr. Keenan wrote, it is Toronto the Hostile...I'll add Toronto the Uncaring. We give to

MDBCs 18 Apr 2024

April 18th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Apollonius the Apologist Corebus Cyril VI of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church) Eleutherius and Antia Galdino della Sala Molaise of Leighlin

MDBCs 17 Apr 2024

April 17th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada) Stephen Harding April 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Evacuation Day (Syria), celebrates the recognition of the independence of Syria from France in 1946. FAO Day (Iraq) Flag Day (American Samoa)

MDBCs 16 Apr 2024

April 16th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Benedict Joseph Labre Bernadette Soubirous Drogo Engratia Fructuosus of Braga Isabella Gilmore (Church of England) Martyrs of Zaragoza

MDBCs 15 Apr 2024

April 15th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abbo II of Metz Father Damien (The Episcopal Church) Hunna Paternus of Avranches April 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of the Sun (North Korea)

MDBCs 14 Apr 2024

April 14th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Ambedkar Jayanti (India) Bengali New Year (Bangladesh) Black Day (South Korea) Christian feast day: Anthony, John, and Eustathius Bénézet Henry Beard Delany (U.S. Episcopal Church)

MDBCs 13 Apr 2024

April 13th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Catholic commemoration of Ida of Louvain April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Songkran Songkran (Thailand) Water-Sprinkling Festival Vaisakhi (between 1902 and 2011)

Of Pride and Power Chapter 29 is Live

Chapter 29 As I noted I'll be on vacation for a bit, I'll leave a few short stories just so folks get some more info on side characters and stories. As for this chapter, it's an interesting culmination of effects. In the 16th century, the forces of the Calvinism Protestants and Counter-Reformation Catholics were very powerful movements that warped society and enforced a lot draconian moral rules. Places like the Netherlands, which traditionally were far more liberal and cosmopolitan du

W_L

W_L in Writing Stories

MDBCs 12 Apr 2024

April 12th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Children's Day (Bolivia) Christian feast day: Adoniram Judson (Episcopal Church) Alferius Blessed Angelo Carletti di Chivasso Erkembode Pope Julius I Teresa of the Ande

MDBCs 11 Apr 2024

April 11th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Antipas of Pergamum (Greek Orthodox Church) Barsanuphius Gemma Galgani Godeberta Guthlac of Crowland George Selwyn (Anglicanism) Stanislaus

MDBCs 10 Apr 2024

April 10th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Fulbert of Chartres James, Azadanus and Abdicius Mikael Agricola (Lutheran) Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Episcopal Church) William of Ockham (Anglicanism) William Law (A

MDBCs 09 Apr 2024

April 9th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Anglicanism, Lutheranism) Gaucherius Materiana Waltrude April 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Anniversary of the German Invasion of Denmark (Denmark)

MDBCs 08 Apr 2024

April 8th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Buddha's Birthday, also known as Hana Matsuri, "Flower Festival" (Japan) Christian feast day: Anne Ayres (Episcopal Church (USA)) Constantina Julie Billiart of Namur Perpetuus Walter of Pontoise

MDBCs 07 Apr 2024

April 7th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Aibert of Crespin Blessed Alexander Rawlins Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley Blessed Notker the Stammerer Brynach Hegesippus
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